St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-10
The Last Week Of the EXPOSE
tion---Some Of the At
fractions offered.
A ROseate View Of Liberati'S
Life in Marble Palaces
Under Italy's Sky.
A Man Who Was Too DR. unk
To Be Killed---SociaI
Happenings.
JES US AS AN EDUCATOR.
How the Son of God Taught the
Disciples.

AT the Church OF Christ yesterday
morning Rev. j. II. Lhamon preached
an Interesting sermon from Acts iV., Is.
He said: There is no royal road to
learning, but there is more than royaI
road to religion. The school of Jesus
was unique. Though Peter and John
had graduated therein. they appeared
to the elite of the Jews as ''unlearded
and ignorant men," Yet they held a
knowledge and power that put them in
the foremost rank of the worlds good
men, and, therefore. also of the worlds
great men. In three years and half
these uncOuth fishermen had become
preachers of note among their own
cOuntrymen, and what is more, they
were the boldeSt pioneers in new and
revolutionary faith. If they were I'M
learned. then what is learning? And if
does knowledge consist? Should not
the height of a mans edu-
cation be measured by the height of his
success in his appointed field? Educa-
ton does not consist in such or such an
accumulation of facts, nor in the mere
mastery of theory, nor in any tricks of
tongue, hand or heel, nor yet in so many
years at collegescapped with a ''sheep-
skin" duly printed and officially signed.
Something or all of the above is about
the popular idea of education, and it
does not fall far short of the PhariSai-
cal and rabbinical idea in the time of
Christ. The education of the rabbis
consisted in a knowledge of the law,
and of the endless traditions about it
of innumerable hand-washingS, and
Sabbath regulations, and fOrmalitieS,
technlcalities, and intricate regulations
about the temple worship, and priestly
dresses, and sacrifices, and SenSelesS
and impossible rules and rights of all
sorts. These men had vast mass of
uncommon sense, but none of the COM
mon sort. Here is a description of a
scribe, taken from Freeman Clarke:
lone day | saw Rabbi Jehuda walking
in the meadows which lay near the high
hills on the western side of our valley.
He walked, as was his custom, lost
moving in his sleep. They said
of him that he had forgotten ali COM
mon things. AS one who goes to the
bottom of Il deep well, and looks up,and
can see the stars in the day but nothing
else, so men said, 1.-THE master Jehuda
looks from the deep well of his knOwl-
edge and sees the stars of eternal
truth" Put such man on Nicollet
avenue. or into your counting houSeS,Or
into your pulpitS. and what complete
Ounce he would seem! Yet as the times
went he was an educated man. In con-
trast with this let US get ChriStS idea
of education.
% He gave his disciples basis
on which to work. (2) He gave
them work to do. 81 He told them
how to do it.
First-A new world of fact without,
and new world of faith within them
constituted the basis OH which they
were to work. The fact Of Christs
strange, yet great and loving life; of
death, equally strange and if possible
more loving. as shown in his submits
siveness and forgiveness: of his resur-
rection, more strange than all else, and
his whole ministry to earth grown
victorious therein-theSe facts could
never fade from the memories Of the
twelve whom he had especially chosen
to retain them. These facts they knew.
Out of that knowledge there grew faith
in Christ as the Son of God, only begOt-
ten ON earth; and with that there came
faith in the fatherhOOd of God: and
with that faith in the greatness of man,
in his Immortality and his infinite pos
SibilitieS; and with that came the ex-
pansive and fertile faith in the possible
brotherhood of man. In all this fact
and faith there lay wrapped up germ
fashion whole new and immortal era,
not of human activity only, but of the
divine-human. Compared with the
learning of the schools, the scribes and
the rabbis of the time, this of the
apostles was vital while theirs was but
the fragments of shell from which the
chick had long gone out.
SecOnd-JeSuS did what few educators
have yet learned to do. He put before
his disciples an aim. He gave them
calling. profession. an object in life.
He said: go teach all nations, baptiZ-
ing them in the name of the Father,
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that
l have commanded you" AS an ideal
that is magnificent; as work to be ac-
complished by few Jews it is appall-
ing. Bravely they undertook it, and
how well they succeeded is known to
every historian. The work that these
''unlearned and ignorant men, did in
the frs fifty years this side of the res
direction is marvellous if it be not mi
raculouS.
Third-In a general way Jesus told
his decipleS how to do their work. His
own sermons and parallels and pre-
ceptS and prayers were fresh in their
memories as models of the most effici-
ent oral teaching. His example of
calmness and constancy under trials,
OppOsitionS, prosecutions and seeming
failures must have been to them a
source of great comfort, inspiration and
power. How promptly Jesus rebuked
the impulsiveness of Peter, and the
vindictiveness of James and John, how
tenderly He removed the doubts of
Thomas, with what lessons of humility
did He shame their common pride, how
readily did He forgive the treason of
Judas, and how promptly did He forbid
the use of the sword even in the mo-
ment of his own arrest. In all these
things He was teaching the twelve to
teach the world the same great, con-
slant. hopeful and yet humble and self
sacrificing life.
10 teach men Jesus had said, 81 will
make you fishers of men," Other such
efficient fishers of men there never have
been. They may have been uncouth,
sheer at their lack of literary culture,
but they made it hear their facts and
feel their faith. They have been ignor-
ant of rabinnical tradition and philo-
SOphical nonsense, but they were wise
in heavenly lore, and practiced in the
art of plain speech on the subject of
human duty. They wore no pharisaical
robes, and were lacking in all the as
sumptions of pride, but they were clothed
in the grace and power of genuine
manliness, while by reason of their hui
mility they were made the recipients of
the Holy Spirit, and became thereby the
heralds of the new era, the prime min
listers. priests, and princes in kingdom
greater and more lasting than ever
troubled the dreams of Pharaoh OF OAR
Jus OF Caesar.
If it is the hand of success that sets
the crown of real education on the brow
of manhood, then these men are among
the best educated that the world delights
to honor. But if we could take look